Painting on Slate: Bourbon St. Art (Jazz Motif)
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Painting on
Slate: Bourbon St. Art (Jazz Motif)
Signed: MB 96
Note on
Reverse:
In February 1719 Jean Baptisie Le Moyne, Sieur
De Bienville, put fifty men to work clearing land for a new settlement to be
called New Orleans. The area they began clearing is now known as the French
Quarter.
By 1722, New Orleans with a population of
less than 500 people became the capital of French Louisiana.
In 1788 and 1794 two great fires destroyed large
portions of the city. Governor Francois Louis Hector, Baron De Carondelet,
determined that cinders from chimneys set the wooden shingles on fire. The
flames quickly spread among the closely built wooden houses of the city.
Governor Carondelet caused new buildings to be built with slate roofs. Slates
were imported from Cuba and other areas.
Captains of sailing fleets brought the
slate over and using them and cobblestones for ballast. Once here the
cobblestones were used in the streets and the slates were cut and used for
roofing material. The slates are between 100 and 200 years old.
[For this painting] Hand crafted to size.
4.5 x 11 inches
12.96 ounces
367.5 grams
New Orleans
March 1996
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